hello all,
if i need to pay 2023 income tax, this year 2024(may), i want to know how much % i have to pay
how they will count my days?
will they count 2024 days? for my tax %(2023)
Most average earners will pay taxes at rates between 8-12%.
They count days based on your entry and exit records. However, the days are only relevant for two things:
- If you count as a tax resident or not (staying >183 days)
- If you receive salary from overseas and stay less than 300 days, you can get that salary pro-rated based on the number of days you’re staying
No, 2024 is not relevant for 2023 taxes.
in 2023 i almost stayed in taiwan around 300 days. and now my company is saying that i have to stay 183 days in 2024 for 2023 tax, if not then 18% tax.
and if you try to leave country, immigration will hold you on airport.
Hahahaha
That is not true. Many people I know with APRCs or Gold Cards just don’t file tax.
That sounds rather strange.
There is an ongoing issue that foreigners who stay less than 183 days in a year are taxed at 20% because the tax office doesn’t see them as tax residents (causing employers to withhold 20% from foreigners sometimes for the entire year)…
But that only applies within the year - if you stayed over 300 days, there is no reason nit being able to file taxes.
so i can file my 2023 tax(i think 5%), and fly to my country, without any trouble? in june
so either anybody pay tax or dont pay tax, immigration department can not be hold that person on airport, he can fly anywhere he wants? Specially foreigners?
If his employer actually withheld 20%, he would most definitely get a refund!
But the with the employer telling him like that, it could be that they’re not correctly withholding taxes and just don’t want him to file taxes for 2023 because of this…
If you plan on returning to Taiwan, it’s still best to keep things in order and file for taxes every year. However, they won’t stop you at the border just because you haven’t filed yet. From what I heard, not paying taxes can cause some issues in renewing one’s ARC, though.
i dont have any intention for doing something illegal (not paying tax), but yes, i dont have any intention of coming back to taiwan.
If your employer behaved correctly, they should have already withheld taxes from every paycheck and sent them to the tax office. Maybe even more than you actually need to pay, so you might even get a refund.
But something tells me that your employer dodged the taxes and doesn’t want you to find out by telling you that you cannot file taxes…
If you want to keep everything in order, just go to the tax office in person and tell them your situation. They speak English and will help foreigners to file taxes.
I’m not sure where you’re getting that from? I’m quite certain you know that tax rates are based on taxable income. Can’t be bothered calculating it accurately from my phone, but an actual tax rate of 8–12% would correspond to an annual salary considerably north of $1.5 million (after accounting for the minimum possible deductions/exemption), which I don’t think is “most average earners”.
OP has given their salary in another thread (NT$48k per month), so they’re well below that. Their actual tax rate will be a couple of percent, if that (for the year they were here >183 days).
2400 is mentioned as withholding in my salary slip, but i did not see any deduction, i am so very confuse regarding my salary slip, so complicated not clear 100%
Suggest just posting one or more redacted photos of your salary slip(s) in the other thread. You keep saying they’re confusing but I’m not sure why — it’s hard to understand what that means without actually seeing them, and the conversation has been going on for a couple of days now.
It’s very simple really. Companies in Taiwan can deduct “meal allowance” from their taxes. So they like to give you some meal allowance, as part of your salary. It is really just salary. Nobody cares or asks whether you are using that on a meal. And for you, this is taxable income.
My meal allowance is non taxable
Meal allowance isn’t taxable. It’s how companies saves taxes by making it part of employee salary
Where are you getting this from? As far as I can tell, I think it’s supposed to be non-taxable income, and that’s the point.
Yeah, sorry, my bad - my numbers were a bit too high.
I was still thinking about the numbers for the Gold Card salaries when meeting the salary threshold.
Let’s do the calculation with the average salary of 694,000 using the online calculator which gives a tax payable of 18,150 which comes down to less than 3%.
That would be 576k per year, so NT$12,250 tax payable (probably even less considering the meal allowance). If the employer correctly deducted 5% (which I doubt - they probably pocketed that money…), that should be a nice refund of >15k!
That’s not my understanding, so in this case I am wrong and I stand corrected. Sorry to make this confusing thread more confusing.